Current Members

Ziang “John” Zhang is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Binghamton University – SUNY, Binghamton, NY.

Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, in 2013. Before joining Binghamton University, Zhang worked at the ABB US Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, NC.

His research interests include power system stability, battery system operations, and renewable energy integration.

LinkedIn page,  Google Scholar page,  CV

Ph.D. Students

• Mohammad Ali Dashtaki
• Xi Chen
• Xuheng Lin
• Virgil Beaston (Launched his company in 2023)
• Xiaoge Huang (Graduated in 2024)
• Zhenhuan Ding (Graduated in 2021)
• Zhao Liu (Graduated in 2020)
• Yanbing Mao (Transferred to Emrah Akyol‘s lab in 2017, Graduated in 2020)

Some past M.S students and their first jobs

(I stopped tracking after 2018…, most of them work in the energy industry)

• 2018
  • Thomas Cirillo – National Grid
  • Ryan Empson – Lockheed Martin
  • Orion Whitney – BAE Systems
  • Xi He – North China University of Science and Technology
•  2017
  • Alexander Valle – Lockheed Martin
  • Edward J Cheswick – General Dynamics
  • Liu Han – Tecogen
•  2016
  • Jonathan Donovan – Lockheed Martin
  • Yishen Liu – WSP USA
  • Hongming Shen – State Grid Corporation of China
• 2015
  • Becky Deng – CFS Engineering
  • Keith Lauria – Central Huson Gas & Electric
  • Mahmoud Amin – IBM
  • Thomas Heller – Lockheed Martin